A faulty lithium-ion battery is a serious hazard and can catch fire. Here's what to do if the unthinkable happens - and some preventive measures.

CHICAGO — Lithium-ion batteries power lots of our everyday electronic devices. However, if these batteries are flawed, they have the potential to cause serious harm or even death. The Chicago Fire ...

There is growing danger in what people are throwing out after a lithium-ion battery burned and exploded at Edmonton’s dump.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The Grand Rapids Fire Department is warning people to be wary of lithium-ion batteries after they were responsible for starting three fires in just the last month. “Over ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Lithium-ion batteries, known for packing a punch of charge within a small space, can also pose a growing fire risk. Nearly 400 first responders gathered in a vacated North ...

We've become increasingly reliant on lithium-ion batteries. In their various shapes and sizes, they can power everything from smartphones to EVs and have proven invaluable for their capacity to charge ...

SAN LEANDRO, Calif. (KGO) -- For months 7 on Your Side has been reporting on the dangers of lithium batteries. They've exploded without warning in some hoverboards, smartphones, laptops and ...

That seems bound to fail, unless thermally coupled to the entire (non-thermally-conductive) tank and insulated from the outside. Seems like you would at least need a pressure release valve, if not ...

ADELPHI, Md. -- Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the University of Maryland have developed for the first time a lithium-ion battery that uses a water-salt solution as its ...

The Healey Administration just approved the permitting of an enormous lithium battery complex in the City of Everett, which would make it among the largest in New England and in a rather populated ...

My parents live two or three blocks from where this happened, and heard the explosion. They didn't know what it was at the time, until it was covered in the local newspaper the next day. The article ...